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Deborah Tannen Quotes

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1945

Topics

Roads Regret Feel Taken About

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Beautiful Madness Reason Inspired

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

Lose Now Temper Well Very Often

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Style I Am Think You Meat Potatoes

To know God's name is to know God.

Stanley Hauerwas

If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

Power Small Think Force Would State

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

Mind Book View Point Of View New

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

Best You Hide Hand Try Anything

It's tough to win major championships. So many things and emotions go through your mind.

Mind Win Tough Emotions Go Through

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

Time World Media Living Imagery

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Individual Compete Democratic Merit

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Dennis Eckersley

Me Tears Sometimes Pitching Did

It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he's not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time.

Christopher Priest

Time Me Team Nothing Why No Sense

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